Food security entails the challenges of overcoming today’s hunger, feeding a population that by 2050 is predicted to be more than 9 billion, and achieving all this in sustainable ways. World agriculture production and food systems are in a process of rapid transformation while food security remains highly unsatisfactory and appears increasingly at risk.
Populations connected with small farms include the majority of the world’s poor. What will be the future of small farms? And, what will be the role for large scale farming? What is and should be the appropriate responses to resource scarcity, for example land and water shortages, and to climate change? Technology and agricultural research investment (public and private) could facilitate innovation. How can this be accelerated and how can the access to improved technologies be enhanced?
This report of the Bertebos Conference 2010 outlines challenges and long-term outlooks for food security and the futures of farms. Speakers from China, Ethiopia, India, Brazil and Russia give their views on how small and large scale agriculture are developing in their countries and continents. Trends and possible scenarios for the future are presented. Certain threats will most probably be overcome. Others do require our urgent action.
Kunskapens Krona, Nya ledamöter och pristagare, Svenskt intresse för kapacitetsuppbyggnad i albanskt skogsbruk, Aktuell ledamot: Pernilla Ivarsson, Fiskekommittén – kommitté på hugget!
In this report focus is put on how some European countries implement the WFD and how the EU will treat the differences. Special emphasis is put on the characterisation process and to what extent this includes public participation.
Sammanfattning av föredrag och diskussioner vid ett seminarium vid KSLA med syftet att diskutera de förslag till den kommande forskningspolitiska propositionen som en arbetsgrupp tagit fram efter sammankomsten vid KSLA den 12 december 2002
Sverige har haft utrikesbevakning på jordbruksområdet i 130 år. Uppdraget har förändrats med jordbrukspolitiken, miljö- och livsmedelsfrågor och EU-inträdet. Lantbruksrådens kontakter, närvaro över tid, konstans, institutionella minne och nätverk kommer alltid att vara viktiga i en värld som knyts samman av handelsströmmar, migration och miljöfrågor.
